

60 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestAfter a tense hostage exchange, I-shin confronts her protégé. Su-yeol makes a grim discovery about his family's fractured past.
Cha Su-yeol, a police officer who has long despised his mother, the notorious 'Mantis' serial killer, must reluctantly turn to her for help when a copycat killer emerges.
Acting
Ko Hyun-jung's Mantis—charming, terrifying, impossible to look away.
Writing
The remake sharpens the French original's edge, not softens it.
Direction
Byun Young-joo frames horror in domestic spaces, everywhere unsafe.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korean adaptations of European crime series often amplify familial duty conflicts; this one weaponizes the concept of filial piety itself.
Ko Hyun-jung reportedly studied actual female serial killer interviews to build Jeong Yi-shin's unsettling warmth—she wanted audiences to understand why Su-yeol still craves her love.